Unemployment Research and Policy in Canada and Australia

Some superficial similarities between Australia and Canada are readily apparent: enormous countries, well endowed with resources, their relatively small populations derive in large part from European immigrants. As far as the structure and performance of their economies are concerned, both are relatively affluent, trade‐dependent countries with a long tradition of agricultural and extractive activity, a beleaguered manufacturing sector, anxieties about their abilities to exploit technological change and the most severe recession since the 1930s.